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an sadly Minny is going to come in Friday and destroy us.....then we have to listen to centcougar all frickin night!</p></blockquote>

I was hoping his mom took away his internet privileges

He'll get here somehow....maybe under the name Suter/Parise For President.

i love the people blaming this loss on a hot netminder. did you miss howard bailing the wings out for the first half of the game?

Exactly, like I said, I think it was Dallas who got out goaltended...it could have been 6 or 7 goals....

DAN WHATEVER YOUR f****** NAME IS CLEAR OR CLEARLY GET THE f*** OUT OF THIS TEAM BACK GO f****** LEARN TO PLAY MORON I PERSONALY DON'T GIVE A s*** THAT YR LEG IS f***ET UP, PLEASE LIIVE. ANF BABCOCK PLEASE GET READ OF OUR QUINESSSSSSYYYYY HOLLAND YOU JUST HIT THE JUCK f****** POTT!

It wasn't a hot goaltender, it was that we gave him the confidence he needed at the end. When you throw non-stop perimeter shots that are easy to stop, you give the goalie time to gain confidence, once he has that confidence set in he'll get into the zone. Once a goalie is within that zone, it's bad news. I can't judge this team until we aren't so damn deep with injuries, but tonight was frustrating. I'm sick of missing the heart, missing the motivation. Our top 6 looks stale, they don't look like they want to win. I practically just want to say, when it becomes that time, you need to switch up the top 6 and make it fresh. When people get used to their jobs, they become complacent, last thing we need right now. Franzen laying on the ice for a solid 30 seconds was the last call for me, I wanted to haze the living *swear word* out of his body.

Without being too stupid, because I hate over-reacting to situations like this, but if theres 2 things I want to take away from this it's this;

(a) Babcock is an amazing coach, but he needs the players to make this happen. He needs the motivated players that will listen to him, and will execute. It seems like this team needs another Bowman, someone who will get down their throat, who won't let complacency set in. Unfortunately, I feel like Babcock is trying to calm them down too much. Yeah, don't get them scared and un-motivated that they can't accomplish anything, but reminding them that "oh, well next game will be better" isn't the answer. Someone needs to get down some throats and get some motivation out of these players. I'd be hazing some bodies if I have some asshats under my command like this.

(b) we're injured like no other. 2/3 of our star 3rd line is out, we're missing 2 our of defensemen. Kent Huskins played good tonight, sadly him and lashoff worked the most. We need the basics right now, seriously boys, THE BASICS. Stop trying to be better than you are, stick with the basics and good things will happen. Once you establish the basics, you can move on to bigger and better things.

No reason to panic, they get Kindl, E and Bert back Friday. That is when REAL panic should set in.

Yeah 40 shots tonight. If we can get that many shots and have Howard play well, we should be fine.

It's only been 3 games people. However, if you want to get all stressed out and lose sleep over a 1-2-0 start, be my guest. If we fall back (it's bound to happen), that just means a better position for a impact player in the draft.

Brunner and Howard have been the only bright spots so far. Franzen is about the same as last year lazy and slow. Yet he continues to get ice time ahead of guys that are busting their asses and that will go to the front of the net. As much as I hate to see Z and Pav split I do think that it had to be done because the 2nd line was not doing anything. Franzen and Flip didnt work last year, hello!

I'm glad Brunner got that goal, no one deserved it more. Super impressed with his character and determination towards the end, he was skating hard, fighting for pucks, making good plays, shooting the puck, and then when all hope was lost he took the puck into the zone himself, got it deep, and created the situation that led to the goal. Great work.

It's easy to feel pessimistic after this game but I didn't think it was too bad. We had a good 1st, a bad 2nd and first half of the 3rd, and a good finish. Howard was amazing but we couldn't solve Lehtonen. It's not all 'bad luck', but it can't go like this every game. We have so many posts, so many open nets missed, so many should-have-gone-ins during this game and the last, it will build up and goals will start coming easier.

More worried about your depression and crappy attitude ..need a hug fat guy?

Easy. He’s not the only poster on here freaking out. What did he say again? “Chicago will crush Detroit” or something? I’d say his “attitude” is leaning more towards “realistic” than “crappy”.

This team might work it out over the course of this short season, but Chicago is up on Sunday. Less than a week away. It might be just me but if someone came on here and said that everything was going to be OK and that we would beat Chicago, I’d call them crazy. Pains me to say it.

You're very welcome..i've seen guys like you around here..as soon as we start winning you will cheer up I'm sure..its happens all the time..I think their is a name for fans like that. Just hope youre ok.

Ugh. This game looked more like STL than yesterday. It obviously wasn't that bad, but it got ugly. All I have to say about this is I LOVE JIMMY HOWARD. That guy is the boss, basically. And good job on the finish late in the game, no shutout.

I think all in all its still early and im not worried yet however i would love to see ore boost Howie was great he was the whole reason we stayed in it and Brunner scoring was great but we need more from our top guys